[/quote]First, Bender is a turnover machine, historically. And slow to get his plays completed at times. Secondly, I believe in wins as a judge of who is successful.

With such a terrible defense it really hurts our chances to have a QB that takes too many negative plays and turns it over too much. Which I think was the main reason why we were more competitive last year under Stanley.

I'd give Bender 1 or 2 more games to prove he can manage a game better and if not, IF Stanley is healthy- then go Stanley the rest of the way

His highest QB rating year was the Orange Bowl year where he had a QB rating of 150.6. He threw for 3486 yards, 33 TD's and had only 3 INT's that year on 446 passing attempts with 276 completions.

Him playing hurt his Senior year really drug down his career QB rating, as he'd probably have a QB rating of around 150 for his career otherwise IMHO.

Comparing his career average numbers outside of his very brief true Freshman year, he averaged 289 yards, about 2 1/2 TD's and 38 pass attempts per game, and threw about 3 picks for every 4 games or 1 INT per every 48 pass attempts.

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